Scissor Sisters: Turning homosexuality into a work of art, the three male members of Scissors Sisters have all been open about their sexuality, with singer Jake Shears recently speaking up for US It Gets Better campaign.

Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend): Keyboardist Batmanglij spoke of his disappointment that the track he wrote 'I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend' for his second band, Discovery, was not adopted by the gay community, saying: "With that song I was having fun, but at the same time it was honest those lyrics are meaningful to me, they come from my heart. I was disappointed when it didn%u2019t become a gay anthem, but, you know, it%u2019s not too late. "

Will Young: Jumping before he was pushed, Britain's first ever pop idol winner spoke of his sexuality ahead of a tabloid's attempt to 'out' the star.

Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene): After being 'outed' in the press, Fowler was said to be left wondering whether the revelation (which he had previously never confirmed or denied) affected sales of third album, 'Marchin' Already'

George Michael: Despite being more famous recently for crashing his car into 'Snappy Snaps' photography shop in London, George Michael is one of pop's biggest gay stars.

Rob Halford (Judas Priest): Flipping the rock stereotype on its head, telling MTV in 1998: "I think that most people know that I've been a gay man all of my life, and it's only been in recent times it's an issue that I feel comfortable to address ... something that I feel has a moment, and this is the moment to discuss it."

Freddie Mercury (Queen)): The much-missed rock and roll legend first spoke of his sexuality with NME in 1974, saying in an interview: Let's put it this way, there were times when I was young and green. It's a thing schoolboys go through. I've had my share of schoolboy pranks. I'm not going to elaborate further."

Kele Okereke (Bloc Party): Refusing to be drawn into discussions over his sexuality when speaking about his music, Okereke told once The Guardian newspaper: "Why was that still a discussion point? The only reason it was a discussion point was because of the racial prejudice that exists in the mainstream media."

The Sigur Ros frontman released a book and album with long-term partner Alex Somers in 2006 as Riceboy Sleeps. Speaking of his Icelandic upbringing, he says: "Growing up gay in Iceland, I didn't know anybody else like me, so I really didn't know how to... what's the word? Proceed Basically, I fell in love all the time, with all of my friends. That made for lots of... drama, a lot of awkwardness, and so much misunderstanding. I had to apologise a lot."

Antony Hegarty (Antony and The Johnsons): The transgendered Mercury Music Prize winner has often spoken of his sexuality, telling The Curate: "I think people tend to be really obsessed with transgender people's physical configurations. But transgender is a condition of the spirit, you know? There's something very reductive that tends to occur in perceiving transgender people and even gay people, in that society tends to want to reduce them, in almost a crude way, around an obsession with their sexuality or even their genital configuration, which has%u2014there's a kind of a cruelty to that, when, in fact, what we are dealing with is people whose spirits are different."

Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy): Never willing to conform to stereotypes, Pallett says of his role in a largely heterosexual industry: "Gay culture has these stereotypes that they kinda have to rely upon to make it successful. Successful like gay art, and I'm really not interested in gay artists who are going to conform to those stereotypes."